February 24: Today morning Swami went to college for a program there and Swami was not present at the morning bhajan in mandir. Swami returned later at 10:00 am.

February 23: The summer has already started in Puttaparthi. The climate is already very hot, the temperatures are going up each and every day. This year the summer is a bit early. But that has not dampened the spirits of the devotees who are coming here as part of there regular pilgrimage.

February 20: There is a local festival going on here in Puttaparthi. It is called "Peerla Pandaga". This festival is a bit special because this is the only festival that people of all the religions celebrate. It will continue for five days on the last day there will be a big dancing celebration. The satues or "Peerlu" as they are called we brought for Swami's blessings yesterday starting the event.

February 18: Yesterday evening there was a musical program by the pupil from the Musical institute in Puttaparthi. The sang Classical songs and it really was good to listen.

February 18: Yesterday the chinese devotees celebrated "Lunar New Year" and there were programs by them and later Mr.Anil kumar gave a speech on this ocassion. Swami presented two of the deovtees in the program with gold chains which would have made this the best start to the new year. After the event prasadam was distributed in those little red cover which wished "Happy Chinese New Year". And there was a special message on the back too, which read "Love All, Serve All".

February 15: There was a statement on the official website of Swami about the Shivarathri festival. Here it is.

"This is to inform all the devotees that Sivarathri will be celebrated at Prasanthi Nilayam on Tuesday, 8th March 2005. In this connection, here is an important announcement. Devotees often have given expression to their feeling that they are disturbed and pained and are unable to bear the sight of Bhagavan's physical body undergoing a lot of strain at the time of Lingodbhava. They always yearn to see the ever smiling and enchanting form of Swami. And, they were often praying to Swami not to perform Lingodbhava. Bhagavan, out of His infinite compassion and love for devotees, has acceded to their prayers and has said that Lingodbhava will not take place on this Sivarathri day."

You can also go to the below address to read this statement.

http://www.sssbpt.org

February 11: We have the slide shows of the events that happened in puttaparthi in the past week, please go to the events section to see the pictures.

February 11: Yesterday evening there was discourse by Swami, and a musical program by Kavita Krishna Murthy to whom Swami materialized a gold chain and presented her. Swami also presented a boy with a chain. All the couples who got remarried in the morning were also present.

February 10: Just now the Marriages of nearly 250 couples finished, all the couples were above 70 years. They were remarried by Swami as part of the special celebration for 80th Birthday. The performed all the wedding rituals with the blessings of our Divine grace Sathya Sai Baba.

They were also given all kind of gifts and things like, jewelry, watches, statues and clothes etc.

February 9: Today the event called "Bheema Ratha Santhi" is going on in Puttaparthi, which means the 70 years of marriage, Swami is blessing all those couples who have crossed 70 years of. There are nearly 250 couples taking part in this event. As I am writing this the wedding clothes are being distributed for the couples for tomorrow's event.

February 9: The rallies by the devotees are becoming quite popular here, in the last few days devotees from Vijaya wada held a rally, nearly 6000 devotees participated in this event. The performed colorful events and programs on the street as they passed along the road singing bhajans. This was the fourth such rally in puttaparthi in recent months. It's fun for the tourist also to see some of the dance of a particular region and the devotion they have for Swami.

February 9: Few days back there was a program by the devotees out side mandir, which was called Clean Parthi, The devotees with some school children went to the river Chitravathi which is dry now and collected all the plastic waste that was lying there. One of the themes of the event was "Keep Mother India Clean And Healthy", hope more people will take this to their heart and keep India clean.

February 9: Sorry for the long delay in updating the site we had a technical problem, we are back now and expect all the news as it happens.